It’s not everyday that one learns at a medical check up that they have a balloon filled with marijuana in their nose.
An ex-con from Australia went to a medical checkup for sinus headaches to find out that the balloon he had hidden in his nasal cavity filled with marijuana was still there after 18 years.
The man had hit it in his nose while serving time.
The unidentified 48-year-old Sydney man’s experience was documented in the medical journal BMJ Case Reports, which dubbed it “the first reported case of prison-acquired marijuana-based rhinolith.”
A rhinolith is defined medically as a stone formation within the nasal cavity.
The ex-con said he had put the balloon up his nose after his girlfriend sneaked the contraband into the corrections facility where he was serving time, according to Newsweek.
He had tried to then pick the balloon out but it went further up his nose and into his head. He assumed his body had absorbed the marijuana.
His x-ray revealed that the 1.9-centimeter “rubber capsule containing degenerate vegetable/plant matter” was still there.